Nearshore Software Development in Puerto Rico: Language and Culture Advantage

May 06, 2014

This is the second of a series of posts about the benefits of nearshoring your software development to Puerto Rico. As we mentioned in a previous post, there’s a variety of reasons why nearshoring to Puerto Rico can bring huge benefit for your company. In summary, our advantages are simple: distance, price, quality and language.

In this post, we are going to specifically talk about the benefits of having a partner with an international reach, no language barriers, no cultural shock, and why it is one of the biggest advantages of near shoring versus traditional offshore software development.

Companies who offshore or near shore their software developments look for partners who can understand their needs and are easy to communicate with. Communication problems are one of the reasons why software development projects sometimes fail. Having a partner that speaks your same language and understands your business culture can be the difference that makes your software development project a success.

No Language Barriers

Puerto Rico is a US territory, which means we speak both, English and Spanish (actually both English and Spanish are the official languages of the Island); this guarantees clients that they are working with a truly bilingual team of experienced professionals. Companies benefit from nearshoring their software developments to Puerto Rico in a big way because this means an easier communication process with the developer in charge of the project; this at the same time ensures a quicker, smoother and successful engagement.

No Cultural Shock

As we have mentioned before, Puerto Rico is a US territory. So taking this point into consideration, it can be said that your company won’t suffer from cultural shock. No lost in translation. Why? Because being part of the United States means that we share countless similarities, and those are not only about the language we speak. We have been a US territory since 1898 and we have adapted not only traditions, but also laws among other things.

Usually when people work with other countries they confront this so called cultural shock, that has a huge impact on the interpretation of the project mission, vision and goals. In Puerto Rico you will not experiment that; from food, hotels, language and activities you will feel like you are home, but with tropical weather all year round.

Based in San Juan, Wovenware provides nearshore software development to various clients in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, US Virgin Islands, Alberta (Canada), and London. As a US based company, regulated by Federal Law, we follow the same best practices, standards, and procedures as other US companies, but with a cost reduction because of our unique location and cost of living. Be it because of our high quality software developers, IP protection laws, price reduction, warm culture or distance proximity, hire Wovenware for your next software development.

Click here to view our infographic on the benefits of nearshoring your software development to Puerto Rico with Wovenware.